Automobile fender



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Application filed November as, 1928. Serial Ho.

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' ofan automobile Be it known that I, TOKUTA SHIMrzt a subject of the Emperor of Japan, residing in the city and county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new anduseful Automobile Fender, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automobile bumpers and fenders which may be'extende for protection of the vehicle and which may be collapsed to a small limit when desired.

provide a fender which may be extended to iflerent positions from the body of the automobile, and especially from the rear of the vehicle, so that, when the automobile is left standing for a time, the driver will, on collapsing the fender, have a sufiicient space or operating the vehicle and driving the same from a limited parking space.

Another object is to provide a collapsible carrier for luggage, having a normal and an extended operative position, means for retaining the same in either position, and means for collapsing the same to-a folded or inoperative position when not in use.

With view, the invention resides in the combination of parts and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed; it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope clalmed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

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having my improved fender applied thereto. Fig.2 is a perspective detail view of the fender. Fig. 3 1s a detail view of the. fender. bracket. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary and detail view showing the spring for holding the fender in operative position. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the fender in partly extended position. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary View of the fender, showing a lock applied to maintain the fender in extended position. Fig. 7 is a side and detail view of a clamp for connecting the collapsible elements to the supporting elements of the fender. Fi 8 is an enlar ed sectional view of the ender.

A primary object of the invention is to d the foregoing and other objects in of what is Figure 1 is a rear View y elements affording a platform therefor. If

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present instance being shown attached to t e rear end of the automobile frame. Clamps 14, are secured by clamping bolts 15, to toothed sections 16, of the bar 11. The umperelement 17, is provided with slots 18, and is connected by a series of lazytong elements 19, 20 and 21, with clamps he movable elements 19, have pins 22, extending through slots 18 and working therein. The bolts 15 are screw-connected to the m'ovable'elements 21.

ber 23, pivotally mounted angular extremity 24 engaging with bumper '17, and retainin the lazy-tong elements 19, 20 and 21 in colfapsed posit-ion. Bumper 17 15 provided with :1. lug 25, having an aperture 26, and member 23 has a corresponding aperture 27. A. pad-lock 28, passing through apertures 26 and 27,.secures the latch member 1n locking position. In the fully extended vice, the padlock may be tral intersecting point of shown in Fi 6, and so on bar 11, has an position of the deapplied at any centhe elements 20, as applied, serves to To support the fender in a horizontal operative position, I construct the bar 11, with grooves, 29, and construct brackets 12, with spring locking members 30, having integral lockingl lugs, 31, engaging with grooves 29 in the orizontal position of the fender.

In use, the operator having parked the automobile, will raise the fender from its depended position to a horizontal position; allowing the'spring locking members 30 to engage with grooves 29.

tomobile. On collapsing the device to its inoperative position, the operator has aspace at the rear in which to manipulate the vehicle to drive the same from parking position. In collapsed position of the elements 19, 20 and 21, the device serves as an ordinary rear fender, and may be used as a supporting means for luggage; the collapsed lazy-tong necessary, straps (not shown), may be applied, connecting the bumper member and Law:

the automobile body. The device, While shown and primarily intended for a tender for the rear of an automobile, may be moditied for attachment at any analogous purposes.

' What is claimed is:

1. An automobile fender having a normal and an extended horizontal operative position and a depending inoperative position, means for locking the tender in its operative positions, and spring means to hold the fender in its horizontal operative positions.

2. An automobile fender having normal and extended horizontal operative positions, and a depending inoperative position, means for locking the tender in normal and extended positions, and springdetent means to hold the fender in its horizontal positions.

8. In an automobile fender, a pair of brackets adapted to be attached to an auto- .mobile body a bar rotatively mounted therein, spring etent means engaging the bar to prevent rotation thereof, a bumper member, and collapsible lazy-tong elements connecting the bumper member and the rotatable bar.

4:. An automobile fender having a relatively horizontal operative position and a depending inoperative position, and spring detent means to hold the tender in its horizontal position, and locking means to maintain the fender in collapsed or extended positions.

5. In an automobile fender, a pair of attachment brackets adapted to be aflixed to the automobile, a bar rotatably mounted in the brackets, and having grooves therein, spring detent members, lugs on the detent desired point for members adapted to engage with the grooves in the rotatable bar to prevent movement thereof, toothed clamp members mounted on the rotatable bar, a bumper having a normal and an extended operative position, lazytong elements connecting the bumper with the clamp members, a retaining lever pivotally mounted on the rotatable bar and engaging with the bumper in its normal position, a lug on the bumper, and a padlock to lock the retaining lever to the lug in the normal position of the bumper, and adapted to engage with the lazy-tong elements at a central intersection thereof, to lock the bumper in its extended position.

6. In an automobile fender, a pair of attachment brackets adapted to be affixed to an automobile, a bar rotatably mounted in the brackets, means to prevent rotation of the bar, clamp members mounted on and adjustable relative to the rotatable bar, a bumper member having normal and extended operative positions, collapsible elements connecting the bumper and clamp members, and means for locking the bumper member in normal and extended positions.

I. The combination with a bumper member bearing the insignia Keep 03, of supporting brackets adapted to be afiixed to an automobile, a supporting bar mounted therein, clamp members mounted on the supporting bar, and collapsible lazy-tong members interposed between and connecting the bumper with the supporting bar.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature.

TOKUTA SHIMIZU. 

